Sunday, August 04, 2013

I have not forgotten what happened to Brandon Raub a year ago this month, in which the Obama regime acted like Nazis, Stasis, The Mob, as a regime considering it above the law, above the Constitution, acting to intimidate those who dare speak out, dare "go against the family", as the saying goes... Here's some background info to what happened.

Brandon Raub, a former Marine who has served tours in Iraq and
Afghanistan, was forcibly taken from his home on August 16, 2012, by FBI
agents and police in Chesterfield County, Va. and placed in a
psychiatric ward against his will. His crime? Posting personal political
views and song lyrics to his Facebook page. Outraged onlookers filmed
the arrest and posted the footage to YouTube, which has since gone viral...

Fortunately, in an unexpected ruling handed down on August 23 by Circuit
Court Judge Allan Sharrett, the government’s case against Brandon Raub
was dismissed on the grounds that the petition for Raub’s detainment “is
so devoid of any factual allegations that it could not be reasonably
expected to give rise to a case or controversy.” While The Rutherford
Institute was able to help Raub win his freedom, we must ask ourselves
why this happened in the first place. This stunning display of
government force against an individual expressing his personal views
from the privacy of his own home indicates that the First Amendment is
hanging by a thread in America.

A federal judge in Richmond, Va., has refused to dismiss from a lawsuit
several FBI and Secret Service agents as well as local police officers
who arrested a military veteran based on an opinion from a counselor who
had never met him that he might be a danger.

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Raub then sued the officers for taking him into custody.

The latest ruling rejected a request by the officers to end the case.

“Brandon Raub’s case exposes the seedy underbelly of a governmental
system that continues to target military veterans for expressing their
discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state,” said John
W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute.

“While such targeting of veterans and dissidents is problematic
enough, for any government official to suggest that they shouldn’t be
held accountable for violating a citizen’s rights on the grounds that
they were unaware of the Constitution’s prohibitions makes a mockery of
our so-called system of representative government. Thankfully, Judge
Hudson has recognized this imbalance and ensured that Brandon Raub will
get his day in court,” he said.

The decision came from U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, who
essentially said there is not enough information at this point in the
case to dismiss the law enforcement defendants. He ordered limited
discovery.

The Rutherford Institute called the decision a victory for free speech and the right to be free from wrongful arrest.